Lawsuit Culture

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I agree with Joel Veldkamp's comments in "The lawsuit culture reaches an apex"
Here in modern America, the most prosperous, most luxurious, most physically secure, most individualistic society on earth, it has become commonplace to sue one another over minor slights and injuries – spilled coffee, trampoline accidents, defective grocery bags.

The statistics quoted in his blog are unfortunately a true result of our societies approach to conflict. We
all want our own way, which is probably not new to people at any time in
history. Our method of dealing with conflict is to attack others. Worse yet we
attack others using lawyers as hired guns and bog down our court system. The
net result is that we all collectively pay the piper to support our litigious
society.

There is another way. People in primitive past cultures
talked with one another. Yes, they experienced some discomfort talking about
the things that pushed their emotional buttons but then they were heard and found
a safe way to discuss their disputes. Today it may take a more formal setting
of mediation to give people the safe way to discuss and resolve their disputes.

I vote for peaceful confrontation of disputes, which clears
the air, and resolve the underlying dispute.

Lee

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